12 Of The Best Breakfasts In Adelaide (2025 Edition)

If you’re on the hunt for the best breakfast spots in Adelaide, Urban List has found it. In fact, we’ve done you a solid by taste testing the lot and trust us, you’re in for a culinary adventure.

From syrup-drizzled pancakes to stuffed breaky rolls, and flaky pastries so good you’ll order double, we’ve rounded up Adelaide's must-visit breakfast spots of 2025 that will ensure the most delicious start to your day.

Pickle In The Middle 

134 Unley Road, Unley 

From a pop-up in Central Market to permanent sunshine–soaked digs in Unley, Pickle In The Middle is a firm fave among locals for good reason—their food is unreal. Snag a seat in the window and people watch while the open kitchen fills eatery with the smell of freshly baked focaccia. Tuck into tom yum eggs topped with crunchy broccoli and apple, a towering Reuben sando or their house made waffles topped with passionfruit mascarpone. Contender for best breakfast spot in Adelaide? Absolutely. 

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Exchange Coffee

12/18 Vardon Avenue, Adelaide 

If your idea of the perfect brekky kicks off with a super smooth brew, then Exchange Coffee is where you’ll want to head. Recently dubbed the 37th best coffee shop in the world (huge!), it’s pretty clear they know their stuff. Grab a seat on the sun-dappled pavement, sip a batch brew (ask the team for their reccos) and work your way through their brekky offerings. Think: buckwheat granola with maple and vanilla panna cotta or their towering brekky burg. For something heartier, you can’t go past their soul-nourishing Peking duck ragu with mushies, fried egg and grilled sourdough.

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Hey Jupiter

11 Ebenezer Place, Adelaide 

Take your tastebuds to Paris with a decadent brekky feast at Hey Jupiter. Looking like a bistro straight off the streets of Le Marais, slip into a seat out front and tuck into flavour bombs like oeuf meurette (poached eggs in red wine sauce with mushrooms, lardons, shallots and toast) and cassoulet du petit dejeuner (baked beans with pork belly, smoked ham, duck confit, goat's curd and toast). Make like the French and wash it all down with a breakfast mimosa or Bloody Mary.

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Yuna

7/34 Henley Beach Rd, Mile End

Yuna is Adelaide's newest Japanese-inspired cafe serving up heartwarming home-style snacks for hungry (read: lucky) visitors. Tuck into xo chilli scrambled eggs, their iconic brekky sando (scrambled egg, avocado, cheese and bacon in toasted shokupan bread) and our fave, the okonomiyaki waffle loaded with streaky bacon, cabbage, dashi powder, and okonomi sauce. Pro tip: return for lunch so you can slurp their spicy yuna ramen. 

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Peter Rabbit 

234-244 Hindley Street, Adelaide 

Encased in greenery featuring lemon trees and potted herbs this converted shipping container turned cafe is one of the best places for breakfast in Adelaide. Our top picks? Mister Potato (a decadent dish of crispy smashed potato, almond cream and XO sauce), and the buttermilk French toast topped with honey and fresh fruit. And to really start your day right, make sure you ​​check out the small enclosure out back that is home to the cafe’s rabbits, Flopsy and Mopsy. 

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My Grandma Ben 

5 Third Street, Bowden

If you’re looking for one of the best breakfasts in Adelaide, make a beeline for My Grandma Ben. Here sustainability, community and excellent eats are at the heart of everything with locals able to trade their homegrown fruit and veg in exchange for a jar of pickles or a coffee. The seasonal menu is constantly changing but expect tasty treats like the heart warming roo shakshuka, house-made crumpets smothered in butter and orange marmalade and crispy carp and sesame toast topped with a poached egg and daikon pickles.

Abbots And Kinney

78 Pirie Street, Adelaide

If pastries are your jam, then put Abbots And Kinney to the top of your must-do list in Adelaide. Their sweet and savoury creations are some of the best we have tasted—ever! With quirky names, some of our favourite flavour bombs include, Bananas In Pyjamas (a crispy croissant filled with chewy caramel and choc brownie topped with banana mousseline), Cheesy Peezy (a five cheese sourdough toastie with caramelised onion jam) and Son Of A Baci (a twice baked chocolate croissant with gianduia cream, crumble and roasted hazelnuts). 

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Bloom

38 Winwood Street, Thebarton 

A converted tram barn, this place is straight up beautiful. With vaulted ceilings and a palette of moss green and pale pink, Bloom is the breakfast destination of your dreams. With a menu that heroes fresh, local produce, you’ll fill your belly with eats like brioche buns stuffed with braised beef rib, hollandaise and gremolata, or blood orange and yoghurt panna cotta with an oat crumb. And you can’t go wrong with their potato hash with lashings of black pepper aioli. 

Flinders Street Project

276 Flinders Street, Adelaide 

With 10,000 wooden spoons artfully hanging from the ceiling, Flinders Street Project is one of those places you’ll remember long after your visit—for the food, as much as the interior. With a farm to table ethos, the menu is made up of absolute bangers and features heaps of tasty vegan options, so everyone is covered. Make sure you save some room for their famous scrolls, croissants and danishes which are lovingly baked in a 990-kilogram stone pastry oven from the 70s.

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Whistle And Flute

136 Greenhill Road, Unley

Exposed brick, polished concrete and hanging greenery make Whistle And Flute one of the coolest breakfast spots in Adelaide. The menu here is pure fire, with so many tasty dishes it will be hard to narrow down your choice, so come hungry. Gorge on their halloumi burger with avocado salsa, a fried egg and Sriracha mayo, shakshuka eggs and their sweet and sour crispy eggplant with chilli and avo. They also have juice and cold brew on tap—what’s not to love? 

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Part Time Lover

Paul Kelly Lane, Adelaide

One of the most beautiful breakfast spots in Adelaide, Part Time Lover, is an Instagrammer’s dream. Think: pale timber, curved concrete bar and sage green accents. Fortunately Part Time Lover also makes a cracking brekky, like the blue swimmer crab scrambled eggs. And you must wrap your choppers around their PTL breaky sandwich stacked with fried eggs, bacon, mortadella, cheese and smothered in ranch sauce. It will legit rock your world. Be sure to add a side of salt and vinegar fries too. 

Pippo

67 O'Connell Street, North Adelaide

With blonde timber paneling and dusty pink blanquette seating Pippo is a pastel slice of paradise for your next breakfast. The food here is just as pretty as its surroundings, offering a seasonal all-day brunch menu that will have you coming back multiple times so you can sample it all. Our tip? Feast on their breakfast sampler board for two. It's loaded with Tasmanian smoked salmon, eggs (scrambled and poached), smashed avo, bacon, wild mushrooms, Belgian waffles smothered in bourbon maple syrup—and loads more. 

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